Coculture of Staphylococcus aureus with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Drives S. aureus towards Fermentative Metabolism and Reduced Viability in a Cystic Fibrosis Model
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- Laura M. Filkins
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Jyoti A. Graber
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Daniel G. Olson
- Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Emily L. Dolben
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Lee R. Lynd
- Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Sabin Bhuju
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- George A. O'Toole
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- V. J. DiRita
- editor
Abstract
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p> The airways of patients with cystic fibrosis are colonized with diverse bacterial communities that change dynamically during pediatric years and early adulthood. <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">Staphylococcus aureus</jats:named-content> is the most prevalent pathogen during early childhood, but during late teens and early adulthood, a shift in microbial composition occurs leading to <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</jats:named-content> community predominance in ∼50% of adults. We developed a robust dual-bacterial <jats:italic>in vitro</jats:italic> coculture system of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> and <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> on monolayers of human bronchial epithelial cells homozygous for the ΔF508 cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation to better model the mechanisms of this interaction. We show that <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> drives the <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> expression profile from that of aerobic respiration to fermentation. This shift is dependent on the production of both 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline <jats:italic>N</jats:italic> -oxide (HQNO) and siderophores by <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> . Furthermore, <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> -produced lactate is a carbon source that <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> preferentially consumes over medium-supplied glucose. We find that initially <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> and <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> coexist; however, over extended coculture <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> reduces <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> viability, also in an HQNO- and <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> siderophore-dependent manner. Interestingly, <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> small-colony-variant (SCV) genetic mutant strains, which have defects in their electron transport chain, experience reduced killing by <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> compared to their wild-type parent strains; thus, SCVs may provide a mechanism for persistence of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> in the presence of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> . We propose that the mechanism of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> -mediated killing of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> is multifactorial, requiring HQNO and <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> siderophores as well as additional genetic, environmental, and nutritional factors. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:bold>IMPORTANCE</jats:bold> In individuals with cystic fibrosis, <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">Staphylococcus aureus</jats:named-content> is the primary respiratory pathogen during childhood. During adulthood, <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">Pseudomonas aeruginosa</jats:named-content> predominates and correlates with worse patient outcome. The mechanism(s) by which <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> outcompetes or kills <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> is not well understood. We describe an <jats:italic>in vitro</jats:italic> dual-bacterial species coculture system on cystic fibrosis-derived airway cells, which models interactions relevant to patients with cystic fibrosis. Further, we show that molecules produced by <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> additively induce a transition of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> metabolism from aerobic respiration to fermentation and eventually lead to loss of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">S. aureus</jats:named-content> viability. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" content-type="genus-species" xlink:type="simple">P. aeruginosa</jats:named-content> community predominance can provide new therapeutic targets and approaches to impede this microbial community transition and subsequent patient worsening. </jats:p>
Journal
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- Journal of Bacteriology
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Journal of Bacteriology 197 (14), 2252-2264, 2015-07-15
American Society for Microbiology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1362544420476834688
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- ISSN
- 10985530
- 00219193
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- Data Source
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- Crossref